1 Coríntios 6

Kenneth Wuest · Citado em PreceptAustin

1 Coríntios 6

Wuest- "are you those who are unfit to sit on the tribunal of a judge where trifling affairs are judged [forming courts yourselves to settle matters among yourselves]?" NLT = "And since you are going to judge the world, can't you decide even these little things among yourselves?" The answer is of course they are competent to serve as judges of their squabbles and potential suits. It they can judge the world, they can judge these smaller issues. Paul's point in reminding them of the high position in the future as judges of the world should show them that they are able to handle petty differences amongst them now. Hodge on not competent - that is, of too little weight or value, having neither the requisite dignity nor ability—to judge trivial cases? Utley on are you not competent - This is biting sarcasm directed to those who claimed to have superior wisdom! This same term (anaxios) is used of the inappropriate behavior of the Corinthian churches at the Lord’s Supper (cf. 11:27, 29). These immature believers, who claimed so much special spiritual insight, in reality did not know how to evaluate properly or act properly! The term “smallest” is the superlative form of mikros. Paul used it earlier in 1 Cor 4:3. Its use heightens the sarcasm. Not competent (370)(anaxios from a= negative + áxios = worthy) is an adjective which means incompetent, unfit, ‘unworthy’, inadequate. Only used here in NT and in Lxx in Esther 8:12, Jer 15:18. Paul uses the related adverb anaxios in 1 Cor 11:27 = "unworthy manner." Courts (2922)(kriterion) (1) as a place where justice is carried out tribunal, law court ( James 2.6); (2) of a legal process case for judgment, lawsuit ( 1Cor 6.2, 4) Hodge says kriterion means 1. A criterion or test; a rule of judgment. 2. A tribunal or place of judgment, and then, the court of assembled judges (Exodus 21:6; Daniel 7:10; and in the New Testament, James 2:6). 3. The trial—that is, the process of judgment. 4. The cause itself, or the matter to be tried. This last sense is doubtful, although it is generally adopted here because it suits so well the fourth verse, where the same word occurs. The second sense would suit this verse. “If you are to sit with Christ on the seat of universal judgment, are you unworthy of the lowest judgment seats?” But the fourth verse is in favor of the explanation adopted in our version: “Are you unfit for the least causes?” Henry

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Wuest - The various kinds of food are for the stomach, and the stomach is for these various kinds of food. But God will abolish both it and them. But the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission) NET 1 Corinthians 6:13 "Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. NLT 1 Corinthians 6:13 You say, "Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food." (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can't say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies. ESV 1 Corinthians 6:13 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"-- and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. NIV 1 Corinthians 6:13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"--but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. GNT 1 Corinthians 6:13 τὰ βρώματα τῇ κοιλίᾳ καὶ ἡ κοιλία τοῖς βρώμασιν, ὁ δὲ θεὸς καὶ ταύτην καὶ ταῦτα καταργήσει. τὸ δὲ σῶμα οὐ τῇ πορνείᾳ ἀλλὰ τῷ κυρίῳ, καὶ ὁ κύριος τῷ σώματι· KJV 1 Corinthians 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. YLT 1 Corinthians 6:13 the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body; ASV 1 Corinthians 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: CSB 1 Corinthians 6:13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food," but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. NKJ 1 Corinthians 6:13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. NRS 1 Corinthians 6:13 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food," and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. NAB 1 Corinthians 6:13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food," but God will do away with both the one and the other. The body, however, is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body; NJB 1 Corinthians 6:13 Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach is for foods; and God will destroy them both. But the body is not for sexual immorality; GWN 1 Corinthians 6:13 Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will put an end to both of them. However, the body is not for sexual sin but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. BBE 1 Corinthians 6:13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: Food is for the stomach: Mt 15:17,20 Mk 7:19 Ro 14:17 but God will do away with both of them: 1Co 10:3-5 Joh 6:27,49 Col 2:22,23 but for the Lord,: 1Co 6:15,19 3:16 Ro 6:12 7:4 12:1 14:7-9 2Co 5:15 11:2 Eph 5:23 1Th 4:3-7 1 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Ruins of City with Acrocorinth Location of Immoral Temple of Aphrodite SEGUE TO SINS OF THE BODY The second saying the Corinthian used to support their immorality was, “Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats”. In other words they treated sex as an appetite to be satisfied and not as a gift to be cherished and used carefully. Sensuality is to sex what gluttony is to eating; both are sinful and both bring disastrous consequences. Just because we have normal desires, given by God at Creation, does not mean that we must give in to them and satisfy them in ungodly ways. Sex outside of marriage is destructive, while sex within marriage is beautiful. NET Note - There is debate as to the extent of the Corinthian slogan which Paul quotes here. Some argue that the slogan is only the first sentence—“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food”—with the second statement forming Paul’s rejoinder, while others argue that the slogan contains both sentences (as in the translation above). The argument which favors the latter is the tight conceptual and grammatical parallelism which occurs if Paul’s response begins with “The body is not for sexual immorality” and then continues through the end of v. 14. For discussion and diagrams of this structure, see G. D. Fee, First Corinthians (NICNT), 253–57. Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them - NLT = You say, "Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food." This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them." When will God do away with both of them? When our body is glorified, when we are like Christ our Lord (1 Jn 3:2+). John goes on to add this future hope ("hope sure" NOT "hope so"!) should motivate us in the present life, for "everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure." (1 Jn 3:3+).

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Wuest - And God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up through His power. (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission) NET 1 Corinthians 6:14 Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power. NLT 1 Corinthians 6:14 And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead. ESV 1 Corinthians 6:14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. NIV 1 Corinthians 6:14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. GNT 1 Corinthians 6:14 ὁ δὲ θεὸς καὶ τὸν κύριον ἤγειρεν καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐξεγερεῖ διὰ τῆς δυνάμεως αὐτοῦ. KJV 1 Corinthians 6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. YLT 1 Corinthians 6:14 and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power. ASV 1 Corinthians 6:14 and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as through his power. CSB 1 Corinthians 6:14 God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. NKJ 1 Corinthians 6:14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. NRS 1 Corinthians 6:14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. NAB 1 Corinthians 6:14 God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. NJB 1 Corinthians 6:14 it is for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. God raised up the Lord and he will raise us up too by his power. GWN 1 Corinthians 6:14 God raised the Lord, and by his power God will also raise us. BBE 1 Corinthians 6:14 And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power. Now God: 1Co 15:15-20 Ac 2:24 Acts 17:31 Ro 6:4-8 Ro 8:11 2Co 4:14 Php 3:10,11 1Th 4:14 will also raise us up through His power.: Joh 5:28,29 John 6:39-40 John 11:25,26 Eph 1:19-20 Php 3:20-21 Related Passages: John 5:28; 29 “Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, 29 and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment. Romans 8:11+ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. 1 Cor 15:20+ But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. 2 Corinthians 4:14 knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you. ANOTHER MOTIVATION TO HOLINESS: OUR FUTURE RESURRECTION BODY Why should we not commit immorality? Why should we not treat it as a temporal biological function? Because our body will re resurrected and will enter into eternity even as Jesus Christ is now present in bodily form in Heaven. Amazing truth! Now - Note how Paul sets the temporal things like the food and stomach in marked contrast to fact that the fate of the body does not end with this life, thus emphasizing the importance of our bodies -- they will enter a grave one day, and will decay, but will not be destroyed but resurrected to be used throughout eternity. This life is not all there is! Goettsche - Our society encourages us to “live for the moment”, to “grab the gusto” and to immerse ourselves fully into this life. Paul says that is very short-sighted. (Walking Through Life With Jesus) God has not only raised (egeiro) the Lord, but will also raise us up (exegeiro) through His power - Why does Paul begin speaking about the resurrection and by implication about our new immortal, imperishable resurrection bodies? The body (soma) in the context of Paul's discussion about sexuality meant more than the physical frame. It referred to the whole person, composed of flesh (the material) and spirit (immaterial; cf. 2 Co 2:13 with 2 Cor 7:5). Paul's point then is that the bodies of believers and the Lord have an eternal relationship that will never perish. On the destiny of the body, see also Ro 8:11; 2 Co 4:14; 1 Th 4:14. So in other words the body will never lose its importance. It may decay for a season in the grave, but it will be raised and restored. God gave Jesus a resurrection body and God will give us a resurrection body. The resurrection is God's final declaration that He is for the body. There is a subtle point in the Greek for the first raised (egeiro) and the second raised us up (exegeiro) is about which Plummer and Robertson state (and Vine also suggests this) - The compound may be used to mark the future raising as not less sure than the one which is past, and it is well to mark the difference." Plummer and Robertson on now God - ὁ δὲ Θεός. This is parallel to ὁ δὲ Θεός in 1 Cor 6:13, and puts the contrast between the two cases in a very marked way. In the case of the κοιλία (stomach), and the βρώματα (food) to which it is related, God will reduce both of them to nothingness. In the case of the σῶμα (soma body), and the Κύριος (Lord) to which it is related, God has raised the Κύριος, and will raise up the σῶμα of every one who is a member of Him. The contrast between the two cases in complete. (1 Corinthians 6 Commentary) Charles Hodge - The destiny of the body being what is stated in the preceding verse, it is not to perish, but is to share in the resurrection of Christ. “He who raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken our mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in us,”* Rom. 8:11. This verse is parallel to the second clause of v. 13. Of the stomach and meats, it is said, God will destroy both it and them; of the Lord and the body it is said, As he raised up the one, he will also raise up the other. The cases, therefore, are widely different. The relation between our organs of digestion and food is temporary; the relation between Christ and the body is permanent. What concerns the former relation is a matter of indifference; what concerns the other touches the groundwork of our nature and the design for which we were created. (1 Corinthians 6 Commentary) John

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Wuest - Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Having taken then the members of Christ, shall I make them members of a harlot? Let not such a thing take place. (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission) NET 1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! NLT 1 Corinthians 6:15 Don't you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! ESV 1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! NIV 1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! GNT 1 Corinthians 6:15 οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι τὰ σώματα ὑμῶν μέλη Χριστοῦ ἐστιν; ἄρας οὖν τὰ μέλη τοῦ Χριστοῦ ποιήσω πόρνης μέλη; μὴ γένοιτο. KJV 1 Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. YLT 1 Corinthians 6:15 Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? let it be not! ASV 1 Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid. CSB 1 Corinthians 6:15 Don't you know that your bodies are a part of Christ's body? So should I take a part of Christ's body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not! NKJ 1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! NRS 1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! NAB 1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take Christ's members and make them the members of a prostitute? Of course not! NJB 1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not realise that your bodies are members of Christ's body; do you think one can take parts of Christ's body and join them to the body of a prostitute? Out of the question! GWN 1 Corinthians 6:15 Don't you realize that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Should I take the parts of Christ's body and make them parts of a prostitute's body? That's unthinkable! BBE 1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be. your bodies are members of Christ 1Co 6:19 1 Cor 11:3 1 Cor 12:27 Ro 12:5 Eph 1:22-23 4:12,15,16 Eph 5:23,29-30 Col 2:19 May it never be: Ge 44:17 Lu 20:16 Ro 3:3,4,6,31 6:2,15 7:7,13 Ga 2:17 3:21 Ga 6:14 1 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries OUR PHYSICAL BODY MEMBERS OF CHRIST Hodge on vv 15-16 - The design of these verses is to establish two points. First, that the relation between our bodies and Christ is of the intimate and vital character which had just been stated. And second, that the sin in question was inconsistent with that relation, and incompatible with it. Arnold on vv 15-17, 19-20 - Paul gives three cogent arguments as to why Christians should not get involved in any wanton, illicit sex. He could have said that we should abstain from sexual immorality to protect our bodies, for today we live in an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases. (What Every Christian Should Know About Illicit Sex But Doesn't!)

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Wuest - Or, do you not know that he who joins himself with his harlot is one body [with her]? For they shall become, He says, these two, one flesh. (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission) NET 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." NLT 1 Corinthians 6:16 And don't you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, "The two are united into one." ESV 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh." NIV 1 Corinthians 6:16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." GNT 1 Corinthians 6:16 [ἢ] οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ὁ κολλώμενος τῇ πόρνῃ ἓν σῶμά ἐστιν; Ἔσονται γάρ, φησίν, οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν. KJV 1 Corinthians 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. YLT 1 Corinthians 6:16 have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? 'for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.' ASV 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh. CSB 1 Corinthians 6:16 Don't you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh. NKJ 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "the two," He says, "shall become one flesh." NRS 1 Corinthians 6:16 Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, "The two shall be one flesh." NAB 1 Corinthians 6:16 (Or) do you not know that anyone who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For "the two," it says, "will become one flesh." NJB 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not realise that anyone who attaches himself to a prostitute is one body with her, since the two, as it is said, become one flesh. GWN 1 Corinthians 6:16 Don't you realize that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her? God says, "The two will be one." BBE 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh. the one who joins himself to a prostitute: Ge 34:31 38:15,24 Jud 16:1 Mt 21:31,32 Heb 11:31 For He says Ge 2:24 Mt 19:5,6 Mk 10:8 Eph 5:31 1 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries THE PRINCIPLE OF "ONE FLESH" Or do you not know that the one who joins (kollao) himself to a prostitute is one body with her - Another rhetorical question speaking to a truth that the Corinthians should have know. The verb joins is used in Ge 2:24 clearly speaks of the mystical relationship of husband and wife. It is also used of man’s relationship to God (Dt 10:20; 11:22; Jer 13:11). See the verb "kollao" used in the LXX of 2Ki 18:6 describing Hezekiah who "clung to Jehovah". Note that the same verb kollao is used both times in the Greek, describing the oneness that believers have with the Lord who is spirit Hodge - That fornication is incompatible with the relation of the bodies of believers to Christ, arises out of the peculiar nature of that sin. The parties to it become partakers of a common life. Whether we can understand this or not, it is the doctrine of the Bible. Therefore as we cannot be partakers of the life of Christ, and of the life of Belial, so neither can our bodies be the members of Christ, and at the same time have a common life with “one who is a sinner,” in the scriptural sense of that phrase. (1 Corinthians 6 Commentary)

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Wuest - But he who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit [with Him]. (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission) NET 1 Corinthians 6:17 But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him. NLT 1 Corinthians 6:17 But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. ESV 1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. NIV 1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. GNT 1 Corinthians 6:17 ὁ δὲ κολλώμενος τῷ κυρίῳ ἓν πνεῦμά ἐστιν. KJV 1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. YLT 1 Corinthians 6:17 And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit; ASV 1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. CSB 1 Corinthians 6:17 But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. NKJ 1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. NRS 1 Corinthians 6:17 But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. NAB 1 Corinthians 6:17 But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. NJB 1 Corinthians 6:17 But anyone who attaches himself to the Lord is one spirit with him. GWN 1 Corinthians 6:17 However, the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him. BBE 1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit. 1 Co 12:13 Joh 3:6 17:21-23 Eph 4:3-4 Eph 5:30 Php 2:5 1 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Related Passages: John 17:21-23 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Ephesians 4:3-4 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; Ephesians 5:30 because we are members of His body. COVENANT ONENESS WITH CHRIST But the one who joins (kollao) himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him - This first part of this verse (one who joins himself) parallels the first part of the preceding verse.This passage speaks of the mystical union of a believer with the Lord Jesus Christ. "With the Lord, the inner vital spiritual union with the Lord Jesus (Eph. 4:4; Eph 5:30)." (ATR) Joins in essence means to be glued to someone! This speaks of the union and unity that exists between a Christian and the Lord Jesus Christ. Hendricksen on joins...one spirit - The relationship is as close as two pieces of glass lying on top of each other; it is impossible to lift the one piece from the other because the air pressure glues them together, as it were. That is the relationship a Christian should have with the Lord. Already Paul noted that our bodies are members of Christ (v. 15) and thus stressed the uniqueness of our physical frame. Now he mentions the close relationship of our spirit that is joined to Christ.....Clinging to a prostitute constitutes degradation and brings disrepute; clinging to the Lord signifies exaltation and results in esteem.(1 Corinthians - NTC) Hodge - "That is, has one Spirit with him. This does not mean has the same disposition or state of mind, but the same principle of life, v. 12, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is given without measure unto Christ, and from him is communicated to all his people who are thereby brought into a common life with him, Rom. 8:9, 10; 1 Cor. 12:13; John 17:21, 23; Eph. 4:4, 5:30. This being the case, it imposes the highest conceivable obligation not to act inconsistently with this intimate and exalting relationship." W E Vine - this spiritual union is what the Lord declared to the disciples in John 14:20 and 15:4, 5 and expressed in His prayer in 17:21–23. The realization of this union with Christ, maintained by the indwelling Spirit of God, makes our thoughts, aims and activities conform to the mind and will of Christ. (Collected Writings) Jack Arnold - The Christian is one spirit with Christ and it is impossible to separate this union. You cannot divide a spirit. There is a oneness of spirit between the believer and the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, the spirit union is higher than the body union, and higher unions ought to govern lesser unions. What one does with or in his body ought always to be governed by the higher union, for we are spiritually united to Christ. There is absolutely nothing which wrecks one’s spiritual life like illicit sex. More men and women tune out in their spiritual lives over passion for illegal sex than for any other reason. ( What Every Christian Should Know About Illicit Sex But Doesn't!) Utley on the one who joins himself to the Lord - This is a spiritual analogy drawn from Gen. 2:24. As a man and wife become one flesh physically, the believer and his Lord become one spiritual entity (cf. John 17:11, 23; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 5:21–33). This is exactly parallel to 6:16. Joins (2853) see kollao Further strengthening the point, Paul affirms that all sex outside of marriage is sin; but illicit relationships by believers are especially reprehensible because they profane Jesus Christ with Whom believers are ONE (Jn14:18-23; 15:4, 7; 17:20-23; Ro12:5). The oneness with the Lord takes place, however, in the realm of Spirit. Nevertheless there is a bodily connection with the Lord since the believers’ bodies are now members of Christ (6:15) This argument should make such sin unthinkable. Lord (Master, Owner)(2962) see kurios Spirit (breath, wind)(4151)(pneuma from pneo = to breath) - Pneuma originally meant “wind” or “breath” and continued to have these meanings into the New Testament (Jn 3:8; 2 Th 2:8; Rev 11:11; 13:15). Because the breath of an individual was the sign of life, pneuma came to include the meaning of the “spirit” that gives life to the body. Alan Redpath - Here is the issue from the moment of our birth until the moment when we meet God face to face: either the Spirit of God is to triumph and the life of the flesh die out, or that which is of sin and of the flesh will control us that the Spirit of God ceases to speak. That tremendously solemn alternative faces everyone. Everything is lawful for the child of God, but only under the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. What He permits, I will do; what He refuses, I will reject. What His Word tells me is right, I will accept; what His Word tells me is wrong, I will refuse. This is the battleground where you and I fight every day. Hendricksen on the striking contrasts in the preceding passages - Striking indeed is the contrast between the person who clings to a prostitute and the one who adheres to Christ. (1) For instance, the relationship between a man and a prostitute is momentary, without love, devoid of responsibility, mutually destructive, decidedly egocentric, and shamefully immoral. Conversely, the believer’s relationship with Jesus Christ is characterized by permanence, love, trust, edification, obedience, and purity. (2) Prostitution makes one prone to disease and is degrading, sinful, and damaging to one’s soul. However, Christ exalts a person, encourages wholesome living, instructs him or her in the law of love for God and one’s fellow human being, and refreshes the believer’s spirit. (3) An immoral person fails to enjoy matrimonial bliss, experiences failure in personal intimacy, substitutes sex for service to God, and indulges in vulgarity, obscenity, and sensuality. But a Christian builds loving and lasting companionship with his spouse, seeks fulfillment in serving others, loves his Lord, joyfully worships God, cultivates wholesome speech, promotes decency, and exemplifies virtue. “Thus we can understand why the Ephesian letter [Eph. 5:21–33] emphasizes that Christ and his church, as the bridegroom and the bride, constitute the union that is normative for marriage.” ILLUSTRATION - Jack Hyles was asked by a girl in college to go to a dance. His reply is classic. He said, "I'd love to go to the dance with you, but I can't." When asked why, he said, "I have no feet." The girl was quick to see that he really did have feet with which he could have danced and told him so. He simply told her that when he got saved, he lost control of those feet and that now he didn't have any feet to use for dancing. His feet had become God's feet. 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Amplified - Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Wuest - Be fleeing from fornication. Every act of sin which a man may do is outside of his body, but he who commits fornication is sinning against his own body. (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission) NET 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body"– but the immoral person sins against his own body. NLT 1 Corinthians 6:18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. ESV 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. NIV 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. GNT 1 Corinthians 6:18 φεύγετε τὴν πορνείαν. πᾶν ἁμάρτημα ὃ ἐὰν ποιήσῃ ἄνθρωπος ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματός ἐστιν· ὁ δὲ πορνεύων εἰς τὸ ἴδιον σῶμα ἁμαρτάνει. KJV 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. YLT 1 Corinthians 6:18 flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. ASV 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. CSB 1 Corinthians 6:18 Run from sexual immorality! "Every sin a person can commit is outside the body." On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body. NKJ 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. NRS 1 Corinthians 6:18 Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. NAB 1 Corinthians 6:18 Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body. NJB 1 Corinthians 6:18 Keep away from sexual immorality. All other sins that people may commit are done outside the body; but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. GWN 1 Corinthians 6:18 Stay away from sexual sins. Other sins that people commit don't affect their bodies the same way sexual sins do. People who sin sexually sin against their own bodies. BBE 1 Corinthians 6:18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body. Flee immorality Ge 39:12-18 Pr 2:16-19 5:3-15 6:24-32 7:5-23,24-27 9:16-18 Ro 6:12,13 2Ti 2:22 Heb 13:4 1Pe 2:11 Every other sin that a man commits: Ro 1:24 1Th 4:5 1 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Related Passages: Job 31:1+; Matthew 5:28+; Romans 6:16+; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Colossians 3:5+; Hebrews 13:4+; 1 Peter 2:11+; 2 Peter 2:19+ NOTE: THESE ARE ONLY ABBREVIATED COMMENTS - CLICK IN DEPTH COMMENTS ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:18. COMMAND AND REASON TO FLEE IMMORALITY NET Note - It is debated whether this ("Every sin a person commits is outside of the body") is a Corinthian slogan. If it is not, then Paul is essentially arguing that there are two types of sin, nonsexual sins which take place outside the body and sexual sins which are against a person’s very own body. If it is a Corinthian slogan, then it is a slogan used by the Corinthians to justify their immoral behavior. With it they are claiming that anything done in the body or through the body had no moral relevance. A decision here is very difficult, but the latter is to be preferred for two main reasons. (1) This is the most natural understanding of the statement as it is written. To construe it as a statement by Paul requires a substantial clarification in the sense (e.g., “All other sins …” [NIV]). (2) Theologically the former is more difficult: Why would Paul single out sexual sins as more intrinsically related to the body than other sins, such as gluttony or drunkenness? For these reasons, it is more likely that the phrase in quotation marks is indeed a Corinthian slogan which Paul turns against them in the course of his argument, although the decision must be regarded as tentative. Flee (pheugo) immorality - Amplified - "Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]." That is a good paraphrase for we not only have to flee literally and physically (like Joseph) but we first have to flee mentally (thoughts precede actions)! Flee is a command (present imperative see our need to depend on the Holy Spirit to obey) to continually keep fleeing until the danger is past. When we are in danger of immorality, do not argue or debate or explain, and do not rationalize. It is no accident that the imperative form of the verb “flee” is used once in 1 Corinthians with immorality and once with idolatry (1 Cor 10:14+) as these two sins characterized the pagan world and from OT times these two sins tended to "traffic together". (cp Nu 25:1-3). Idolatry is equated with greed or covetousness () and immorality is basically coveting someone else's wife or a woman that is not your wife! Do not to consider immorality a spiritual challenge to be met, but a spiritual trap to be escaped. We should get away as fast as we can. Sexual lusts drive men (and women) like no other impulse and when fulfilled affects the body like no other sin. It has a way of internally destroying a person that no other sin has. Because sexual intimacy is the deepest uniting of two persons (1 Cor 6:16,17), its misuse corrupts one on the deepest human level. That is not a psychological analysis but a divinely revealed fact. Sexual immorality is far more destructive than alcohol, far more destructive than drugs, far more destructive than crime. Spencer - Paul continues to press the point that illicit sexual behavior is a sin against the Christian relationship because he takes that which belongs to Christ and gives it to another. Therefore, Paul concludes that believers are to flee from fornication. There is an urgency about the word flee. Webster defines it as meaning, To run with rapidity, as from danger; to attempt to escape; to hasten from danger or expected evil ... To avoid; to keep at a distance from. Paul counseled Timothy, a young preacher to: Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. (2 Timothy 2:22) Joseph is a good example to follow (Genesis 39:10-12). When tempted he fled. David, however, is an example of the failure to flee (2 Samuel 11:1-4). David committed adultery with Bathsheba and he paid dearly for it. Dear Christian, we must learn and practice the discipline of putting on Christ and fleeing when it comes to temptation. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. (Romans 13:14) Here is a problem that leads to failure. Paul said, make not provision for the flesh. If we would simply practice this command, we would avoid a lot of sin and failure. Joseph fled (JOSEPH WHEN TEMPTED BY POTIPHAR'S WIFE) There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?”....She (POTIPHAR'S WIFE) caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” And he left his garment in her hand and fled (Lxx = pheugo = same verb in 1 Cor 6:18!), and went outside.(Ge 39:9, 12) Comment - It was not the time for argument or explanation but for flight. When we unavoidably get caught in such a situation, the only sensible thing to do is to get away from it as quickly as we can. Passion is not rational or sensible, and sexually dangerous situations should be avoided or fled, not debated. (Ro 13:12-14) Moses made a choice based on his faith in God... By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy ( apolausis) the passing pleasures of sin, (Hebrews 11:24-25+) Solomon writes Keep (Command in Hebrew; ) your way far from her and do not go near the door of her house, (Proverbs 5:8+) Deliver (Command in Hebrew; Lxx = sozo in present tense - "save yourself" and keep saving yourself!) yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand (Lxx = brochos = a noose = used in hunting for catching prey!) And like a bird from the hand of the fowler. (Proverbs 6:5) In Colossians Paul writes Therefore (CONCLUSION BASED ON Col 3:1-4+, especially Col 3:4+) consider the members of your earthly body as dead (aorist imperative see our need to depend on the Holy Spirit to obey) to immorality (porneia), impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (covetousness - pleonexia = state of desiring to have more than one’s due), which amounts to idolatry (eidololatreia = literally worship of images) (Col 3:5+) Writing to the saints at Ephesus (most of whom were Gentiles who had come out of pagan idolatry and immorality) immorality (porneia) or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; (Eph 5:3+) In his parting words to his young disciple Timothy Paul commanded Now flee (present imperative see our need to depend on the Holy Spirit to obey) from youthful lusts (epithumia) and pursue ((present imperative see our need to depend on the Holy Spirit to obey) righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. (2 Ti 2:23+) Flee (escape) (5343)(pheugo) means to flee away in the sense of to take to flight in order to seek safety. To flee in the sense of to escape something, being made safe from danger by eluding or avoiding it (He 11:34+, Mt 3:7, Acts 27:30). To flee in the sense of to avoid, shun (Webster = to avoid deliberately and especially habitually), have nothing to do with (1Co 6:18). To vanish or disappear (Re 16:20+, Re 20:11+). Webster defines flee as to run away often from danger or evil or to hurry toward a place of security. Pheugo is the root of our English word "fugitive" defined as one who escapes from something or someone. Pheugo - 29v in NT - Mt. 2:13; Mt. 3:7; Mt. 8:33; Mt. 10:23; Mt 23:33; Mt. 24:16; Mt. 26:56; Mk. 5:14; Mk. 13:14; Mk. 14:50; Mk. 14:52; Mk. 16:8; Lk. 3:7; Lk. 8:34; Lk. 21:21; Jn. 10:5; Jn. 10:12; Acts 7:29; Acts 27:30; 1 Co. 6:18; 1 Co. 10:14; 1 Ti 6:11 = "flee (p from these things"; 2 Ti 2:22; Heb. 11:34; Jas. 4:7; Rev. 9:6; Rev. 12:6; Rev. 16:20; Rev. 20:11 Immorality (4202) porneia from root verb pernao = to sell, porneuo = to play the harlot; pornos = male prostitute) originally referred to any excessive behavior or lack of restraint. Porneia originally was used especially to describe the practice of consorting with prostitutes (porneis = “prostitute”) and eventually came to mean “habitual immorality.” Porneia in the Scripture describes any illicit sexual activity outside of the divine bounds established by marriage and thus includes the ideas of unlawful sexual intercourse, unchastity and fornication (including but not limited to adultery, premarital sex, homosexuality, bestiality, incest, and prostitution). As an aside, while porneia refers primarily to sins of the flesh, those sins can never be divorced from the sins of the mind or heart, because all sin is related. Sin in one area always makes us more susceptible to sin in other areas. Nowhere does Scripture sanction the commitment of any form of extramarital sexual activity, a far cry from our modern American culture! Sex was often linked to pagan religious practices (both male and female prostitutes cf "priestesses" [aka prostitutes] in Temple of Aphrodite), with the idolatrous worship of false gods (idolatry and immorality are commonly described together in the Bible). Porneia gives us our English word pornography. Porneia is the opposite of the Greek word enkrateia/egkrateia (literally "holding oneself in"), which usually referred to sexual self-control (see Acts 24:25+) Porneia is found in 24v in NT - fornication(4), fornications(2), immoralities(1), immorality(16), sexual immorality(1), unchastity(1). Matt. 5:32; Matt. 15:19; Matt. 19:9; Mk. 7:21; Jn. 8:41; Acts 15:20; Acts 15:29; Acts 21:25; 1 Co. 5:1; 1 Co. 6:13; 1 Co. 6:18; 1 Co. 7:2; 2 Co. 12:21; Gal. 5:19; Eph. 5:3; Col. 3:5; 1 Thess. 4:3; Rev. 2:21; Rev. 9:21; Rev. 14:8; Rev. 17:2; Rev. 17:4; Rev. 18:3; Rev. 19:2 "Sexual immorality" has a peculiar effect upon the body. The sole purpose of this sin is the gratification of the strong desires (lust) inherent in the flesh (Old Man) and, therefore, it is probably the most selfish of all sins. J C

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Wuest - Or do you not know that your body is an inner sanctuary of the Holy Spirit, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission) NET 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? NLT 1 Corinthians 6:19 Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, ESV 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, NIV 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; GNT 1 Corinthians 6:19 ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι τὸ σῶμα ὑμῶν ναὸς τοῦ ἐν ὑμῖν ἁγίου πνεύματός ἐστιν οὗ ἔχετε ἀπὸ θεοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἐστὲ ἑαυτῶν; KJV 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? YLT 1 Corinthians 6:19 Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, ASV 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; CSB 1 Corinthians 6:19 Don't you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, NKJ 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? NRS 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? NAB 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? NJB 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not realise that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you and whom you received from God? GWN 1 Corinthians 6:19 Don't you know that your body is a temple that belongs to the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit, whom you received from God, lives in you. You don't belong to yourselves. BBE 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves; Or do you not know 1Co 6:15,16 your body is a temple 1Co 3:16 2Co 6:16 Eph 2:21,22 1Pe 2:5 you have from God 1Ki 20:4 1Ch 29:14 Ps 12:4 100:3 Ro 14:7-9 2Co 5:15 Tit 2:14 1 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries NOTE: THESE ARE ABBREVIATED COMMENTS - CLICK IN DEPTH COMMENTS ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:19. YOU BODY IS A TEMPLE POSSESSED BY GOD Or do you not know - The Corinthians did know this truth! Who owns you? When I ask myself that question, my first impulse is to dismiss it as nonsensical. With Paul, who enjoyed the rights and freedoms of a Roman citizen, I too can boast that I am free—at least politically. ILLUSTRATION - Olav Olavson was a free citizen of Sweden, but he found himself hard pressed for money. So in desperation he sold his body for medical research to the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1910. A year later, he inherited a fortune, so he tried to buy himself back. But the Institute refused to sell him his rights to his own body, and in a lawsuit they retained possession of it. The Institute even collected damages from him because he had two teeth extracted without permission. Woe! Reminds me of Proverbs 5:22+ "His own iniquities will capture the wicked, And he will be held with the cords of his sin." that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you - The word your is plural, but the words body and temple are singular. It seems taht Paul is here describing not only the individual believer, but also the local church. Each local assembly is a “body” of people united to Jesus Christ. The conduct of individual members affects the spiritual life of the entire church. (See comments on 1 Cor 3:16) To commit sexual sin in a church auditorium, disgusting as that would be, would be no worse than committing the sin anywhere else. Offense is made within God’s sanctuary wherever and whenever sexual immorality is committed by believers. Every act of fornication, every act of adultery by Christians, is committed in God’s sanctuary: their own bodies. “For we are the temple of the living God” (2Co 6:16). One of the words for Holy Spirit is parakaleo is "Counselor" or "Helper." (parakletos in Jn 14:26) We have been given a divine resource in the battle against the flesh and against sexual sin. We don't have to be in bondage, because we have the power of the Spirit of God within us (Ezek 36:27+) to supernaturally help us resist the temptation. It is possible to live a life of sexual purity. (See The Holy Spirit-Walking Like Jesus Walked!) Whom you have from God, The Spirit is our Gift from the Father and the Son! We are his temple, but literally it's not the whole temple, but the holy of holies, the sanctuary, the place in the temple where God dwelt. Each one of us, if we have a relationship with Christ, is the sanctuary of God. Paul calls us to sexual purity because we are the dwelling place of the eternal God of the universe. So how can we defile the place where God lives with sexual immorality? and that you are not your own? Every act (= thought) of fornication, every act (= thought) of adultery by Christians is committed in essence in the "holy of holies"! (Greek is naos)This is serious and is why Jesus said if your hand or eye cause you to stumble cut it off or pluck it out (Mt 18:8,9, Mt 5:29,30+)! (cp Heb 13:4+). We have the power to put to death these deeds of the flesh by the Spirit (Ro8:13, Col3:5, which follows Col1, chap 2 teaching us who we are in Christ & "Whose" we are). C.T. Studd - I had known about Jesus dying for me, but I never understood that if He died for me, then I didn't belong to myself.... If I belong to Him, either I had to be a thief and keep what wasn't mine, or else I had to give up everything to God. When I came to see that Jesus Christ had died for me, it didn't seem hard to give up all for Him. Question - What does it mean that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? Answer: Instructing the Christians in Corinth to flee from sexual immorality, the apostle Paul exhorted, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Indeed, God the Father created our bodies, God the Son redeemed them, and God the Holy Spirit indwells them. This makes our body the very temple of the Holy Spirit of God. Those who do not belong to Christ do not have the Spirit of Christ residing in them (Romans 8:9). Thus, their bodies are not a temple of the Holy Spirit. Clearly, then, the greatest thing we can do for our bodies is to make them into a temple for God’s Spirit. And we do this by placing our trust and faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior. The moment we do this, the indwelling of God’s Spirit takes place (1 Corinthians 12:13). Our salvation is then sealed and guaranteed (Ephesians 1:13-14). The Holy Spirit will then be with us forever (John 14:16), given by God as His pledge of the believer’s future inheritance in glory (2 Corinthians 1:21-22). As the Holy Spirit resides in us, therefore, we are to honor God with our bodies as they “are not [our] own,” as Paul said. We have indeed been bought with a price. And it was not gold or silver or other perishable things by which we were redeemed; it was with the precious, unblemished blood of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:18-19). Ordained by God before the foundation of the world (Acts 2:23), Christ’s blood purchased us out of the slavery of sin and set us free forever. And as Christian’s bodies are God’s temple, we are to use them to glorify God. If God meant simply to convey the idea that the Spirit lives within the believer, He could well have used words such as “home,” “house,” or “residence.” But by choosing the word “temple” to describe the Spirit’s dwelling, He conveys the idea that our bodies are the shrine, or the sacred place, in which the Spirit not only lives, but is worshiped, revered, and honored. Therefore, how we behave, think and speak, and what we let into the temple through our eyes and ears becomes critically important as well, for every thought, word and deed is in His view. Even though He will never leave us, it is entirely possible to grieve the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4: 30). Instructing the Ephesians to not grieve the Spirit, Paul told them to “get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you” (Ephesians 4:31-32). When we live by the Spirit, we will no longer gratify the desires of the sinful nature (Galatians 5:16).GotQuestions.org D L Moody - I THINK it is clearly taught in the Scripture that every believer has the Holy Ghost dwelling in him, that there is a divine resident in every child of God. He may be quenching the Spirit of God, and he may not glorify God as he should, but if he is a believer on the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost dwells in him. But I want to call attention to another fact. I believe to-day that though Christian men and women have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them, He is not dwelling within them in power; in other words, God has a great many sons and daughters without power. F B

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Wuest - For you were purchased at a price. Now therefore, glorify God in your body. (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission) NET 1 Corinthians 6:20 For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body. NLT 1 Corinthians 6:20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body. ESV 1 Corinthians 6:20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. NIV 1 Corinthians 6:20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. GNT 1 Corinthians 6:20 ἠγοράσθητε γὰρ τιμῆς· δοξάσατε δὴ τὸν θεὸν ἐν τῷ σώματι ὑμῶν. KJV 1 Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. YLT 1 Corinthians 6:20 for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. ASV 1 Corinthians 6:20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body. CSB 1 Corinthians 6:20 for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. NKJ 1 Corinthians 6:20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. NRS 1 Corinthians 6:20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body. NAB 1 Corinthians 6:20 For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body. NJB 1 Corinthians 6:20 You are not your own property, then; you have been bought at a price. So use your body for the glory of God. GWN 1 Corinthians 6:20 You were bought for a price. So bring glory to God in the way you use your body. BBE 1 Corinthians 6:20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body. For you have been bought with a price: 1Co 7:23 Ac 20:28 Ga 3:13 Heb 9:12 1Pe 1:18 2Pe 2:1 Rev 5:9 glorify God in your body: 1Co 10:31 Mt 5:16 Ro 6:19 12:1 Php 1:20 1Pe 2:9 1 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Related Passages: Job 31:1+; Matthew 5:28+; Romans 6:16+; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Colossians 3:5+; Hebrews 13:4+; 1 Peter 2:11+; 2 Peter 2:19+ NOTE: THESE ARE ABBREVIATED COMMENTS - CLICK IN DEPTH COMMENTS ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:20. THE COST OF REDEMPTION SHOULD MOTIVATE GOD-GLORIFYING BEHAVIOR For gar: The reason that the believer, according to Paul, can no longer claim free choices is that he is now the personal property of another. The imagery of “bought with a price” probably derives from the slave auctions so well known in the ancient world (cp Ga3:13) Its emphasis, therefore, is not on having a ransom paid that leads to freedom, but rather on a change of ownership. There was for Paul no stronger antidote against sexual promiscuity and prostitution than claiming the believer’s body, and not just his soul and spirit, as the location for the glorification of God. You have been bought with a price - Jesus Christ bought us with a price, and therefore our bodies belong to Him. We are one spirit with the Lord and we must yield our bodies to Him as living sacrifices (Ro 12:1-2). If you begin each day by surrendering your body to Christ, it will make a great deal of difference in what you do with your body during the day. Now I belong to Jesus, Jesus belongs to me, Not for the years of time alone, But for eternity. —Clayton What is the "price" [Greek = time) Jesus paid? [1Pe1:19] The precious (timios) blood of the unblemished, spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (Jn 1:29). Christians’ bodies are God’s temple, and a temple is for worship. Our bodies, therefore, have one supreme purpose: to glorify God. This is a call to live so as to bring honor to the person of God, who alone is worthy of our obedience and adoration. As you review this section, you will see that sexual sins affect the entire personality. They affect the emotions, leading to slavery (1Co6:12b). It is frightening to see how sensuality can get ahold of a person and defile his entire life, enslaving him to habits that destroy. It also affects a person physically (1Co6:18). The fornicator and adulterer, as well as the homosexual, may forget their sins, but their sins will not forget them. SPURGEON - 6:19–20 “You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body.” Notice three things in this text. First is a blessed fact: “You were bought at a price.” Then comes a plain consequence: “You are not your own.” And out of that springs inevitably a natural conclusion: “So glorify God with your body.” First, the blessed fact: “You were bought at a price.” Paul reminded us that we were redeemed from the punishment due us, redeemed from the wrath of God, redeemed to Christ to be his forever. “You were bought” implies a price, but the words “at a price” are added to show that it was not for nothing that we were purchased; something inestimably precious was paid for us—“the precious blood of Christ” (1Pt 1:19). Our being “bought at a price” is the most important fact in our present existence. It determines all we do and are as Christians. It also will be the most important fact in our future existence, for redeeming love is the song of heaven: “You were slaughtered, and you purchased people for God by your blood” (Rev 5:9). Second, from this arises an important consequence—“You are not your own.” If bought, we are not our own. Now if it is true that we are not our own, then the inferences from this are that we have no right to injure what does not belong to us; and, as we are not our own, we have no right to be idle or to waste our talents. Further, we have no right to do what our old will would do; we are to desire to be obedient to the will of our Father who is in heaven. Yet again, if we are not our own, then we have no right to serve ourselves. The person who is living entirely for himself, whose object is his own ease, comfort, honor, or wealth—what does he know about redemption by Christ? If our aims rise no higher than our personal advantages, we are false to the fact that we “are bought at a price”; we are traitors to him in whose redemption we pretend to share. Finally, from this there is a natural conclusion—“So glorify God with your body.” The force of the apostle’s language falls on the word body, and perhaps it is so because we are so apt to forget the truth of God that the body is redeemed and is the Lord’s and should be made to glorify God. The Christian’s body should glorify God by its chastity. The body should glorify God by its self-control in all things—in eating, drinking, sleeping—in everything that has to do with the flesh. As the apostle put it, “Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God” (1Co 10:31). The body ought to glorify God by its industry. A lazy servant is a bad Christian and does not glorify God in his or her body. Our bodies used to work hard enough for the devil; now that they belong to God we need to make them work for the Lord. Warren

1 Coríntios 6:18

Wuest: Be fleeing from fornication. Every act of sin which a man may do is outside of his body, but he who commits fornication is sinning against his own body. (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission) Young's Literal: flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. FLEE IMMORALITY: pheugete (2PPAM) ten porneian) Ge 39:12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18; Pr 2:16, 16, 17, 18, 19; 5:3-15; 6:24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32; 7:5-23,24, 25, 26, 27; 9:16, 17, 18; Ro 6:12,13; 2Ti 2:22; Hebrews 13:4; 1Pe 2:11 1 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Christian Liberty and Sexual Freedom - John MacArthur 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Christian Liberty and Sexual Freedom - Study Guide - John MacArthur Click for additional on site commentary on 1 Cor 6:18 Related Passages: Job 31:1+; Matthew 5:28+; Romans 6:16+; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Colossians 3:5+; Hebrews 13:4+; 1 Peter 2:11+; 2 Peter 2:19+ RUN FOR YOUR LIFE FOR YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! Recommended Resource: Slow Fade by Casting Crowns - Powerful Video with Superb Lyrics Pastors - play this video Before or After Sermon on 1Co 6:18-20 - someone in your congregation will be convicted! THE IMMEDIATE CORINTHIAN CONTEXT First let's examine the context (1Cor 6:12-17) which is vital if one seeks to accurately interpret an isolated verse or group of verses such as 1Co 6:18-20. Paul had just reminded the Corinthian church of the radical supernatural transformation that had transpired in them when they were born again (washed, sanctified, justified - Read 1Co 6:9, 10, 11). Warren

1 Coríntios 6:18

Wuest notes that in classical Greek hamartano did not have the depth of meaning it has in the Bible noting that… The pagan Greeks used it of a warrior who hurls his spear and fails to strike his foe. It is used of one who misses his way. Hamartia is used of a poet who selects a subject which it is impossible to treat poetically, or who seeks to attain results which lie beyond the limits of his art. The hamartia is a fearful mistake. It sometimes is employed in an ethical sense where the ideas of right and wrong are discussed, but it does not have the full significance of the biblical content of the word. In the moral sphere, it had the idea of missing the right, of going wrong. In the classics, its predominating significance was that of the failure to attain in any field of endeavor. Brought over into the NT, this idea of failing to attain an end, gives it the idea of missing the divinely appointed goal, a deviation from what is pleasing to God, doing what is opposed to God’s will, perversion of what is upright, a misdeed. Thus the word hamartia means a missing of the goal conformable to and fixed by God. It is interesting to note that in Romans the word dikaiosune (word study) which means “conformity to the standard” appears as the opposite of hamartia, a missing of the standard set by God (Ro 6:16, 17, 18-note). The noun hamartia is everywhere translated in the NT, by the word “sin” except in 2Co 11:7, where it is rendered “offense,” since the context speaks of Paul’s relations to the Corinthians. (Wuest Word Studies - Eerdman Publishing Company Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 - used by permission)(Bolding added) Kay Arthur - Because this body is the Lord’s, then when you sin, when you commit immorality, God has got to judge that. (Reference) Vine - There is to be no other course than immediate and decisive dissociation from everything to do with it. Every other sin such as murder, lying, robbery, drunkenness is “without the body,” but fornication stands alone, in that it not only makes the body itself, and so the whole being, the very motive for, as well as the instrument of, sin but it involves the complete destruction of the life and mars the personality of the individual, rendering the living organism, the body, which should be devoted to the service of God, impossible for the fulfillment of the Lord’s design for it. Intended to be only temporary it really forms a permanent bond, to the Lord’s dishonor, sundering union with Him and bringing dishonor, too, upon both the male and the female.

1 Coríntios 6:19

Wuest: Or do you not know that your body is an inner sanctuary of the Holy Spirit, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? Young's Literal: Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, OR DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO IS IN YOU, WHOM YOU HAVE FROM GOD: e ouk oidate (2PRAI) hoti to soma humon naos tou en humin hagiou pneumatos estin, (3SPAI) ou echete (2PPAI) apo theou: 1Co 6:15,16 1Co 3:16; 2Co 6:16; Ephesians 2:21,22+; 1Peter 2:5+ 1 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Christian Liberty and Sexual Freedom - John MacArthur 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Christian Liberty and Sexual Freedom - Study Guide - John MacArthur SEE ALSO BLOG POST - OUR BODY, HIS TEMPLE A SOBERING TRUTH WE MUST TRULY KNOW! DO YOU NOT KNOW? Corinth was well known for it's sexual immorality, for the popular "religion" of the day was to "worship" by visiting the Temple of Aphrodite which had up to 2000 "priestesses," aka, "religious prostitutes!" We shrink back from this fact in judgmental disgust and yet we find ourselves living in a "Corinthianized Culture" in America, a culture in which morality has been discarded and replaced with an open minded, politically correct, anything goes attitude. Sites and sounds on television today would have resulted in a show in the 1950's being removed from the airwaves and possibly even subjected to criminal charges. While the internet has many good aspects, it is also a veritable sewer of unspeakable devilish evil, a sewer easily accessible even by children! Make no mistake, believers are at war with the fallen world (James 4:4, 1Jn 2:15-17). Therefore in this section Paul is giving all disciples of Christ strategic instructions that will enable us to navigate the increasingly murky immoral waters of our post-Christian society. And beloved, unless you are living in a corner somewhere, you are not immune to these noxious, defiling influences. As Jesus prayed (Jn 17:17), we need daily to be sanctified by the truth of His Word, yea, even by the washing of the water of His Word (cp Eph 5:26, Jn 13:10). Enabled by Truth and the indwelling Spirit we need to practice "pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father" and "keep ourselves unstained by the world." (James 1:27). "Beloved, let us cleanse ourselves (OUR "TEMPLES" inhabited by God!) from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." (2Cor 7:1) "If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth." (1Pet 1:17) Do you not know (1Cor 3:16; 5:6; 6:2-3, 9, 15-16, 19; 9:13, 24) - This question expects an affirmative answer. This is truth they should already be aware of, but this recitation serves as an urgent reminder. R C H

1 Coríntios 6:20

Wuest: For you were purchased at a price. Now therefore, glorify God in your body. (Eerdmans) Young's Literal: for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. (Words not in the best manuscripts) FOR YOU HAVE BEEN BOUGHT WITH A PRICE: egorasthete (2PAPI) gar times: 1Co 7:23; Acts 20:28; Gal 3:13; He 9:12; 1Peter 1:18; 2Pe 2:1; Rev 5:9 1 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Christian Liberty and Sexual Freedom - John MacArthur 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Christian Liberty and Sexual Freedom - Study Guide - John MacArthur We find a parallel thought to Paul's teaching in the Old Testament describing Jehovah's "purchase" of Israel, Moses (addressing Israel) asking… Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is not He your Father who has bought you? He has made you and established you. (Dt 32:6, cp the context which begins with the extolling of God and then the reproval of Israel for her unfaithfulness to Jehovah [her Father and her "husband" = Je 31:31, 32, Is 54:5, Ho 2:2 When was Israel "married"? At Mt Sinai = Ezek 16:8] Context = Dt 32:1, 2, 3, 4, 5) For (gar) - Always pause and ponder this strategic term of explanation. Here Paul is explaining why the believer is no longer his own, specifically because a price has been paid to purchase the believer from slavery. The One Who paid the price is Christ. It follows that the liberated person is now the property of their loving Master (the idea inherent in "Lord" - kurios) Christ Jesus and the Spirit is His "Administrator" if you will in our body and is to have full command of the Temple! You have been bought with a price (this verb is discussed in more detail below) - The verb is agorazo which speaks of redemption of slaves out of the slave market by the payment of an appropriate price. Before Christ we were in bondage to sin Paul writing "But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed (NET = "that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to") (Ro 6:17-note), read also Ro 6:12-14) Wycliffe Bible Commentary - Bought (aorist tense) refers to Golgotha, where the price was paid. The figure is that of sacral manumission, whereby a slave, by paying the price of his freedom into the temple treasury, was regarded thereafter as the slave of the god and no longer the slave of his earthly master.

1 Coríntios 6:20

Wuest puts it "Our Lord’s precious, outpoured blood was the ransom paid to redeem slaves of sin from that slavery. His death satisfied the just demands of the High Court of Heaven, paying the penalty for the sinner, and making a way whereby a righteous God could be just and at the same time the justifier of the believing sinner. (Wuest, K. S. Wuest's Word Studies from the Greek New Testament: Eerdmans) Gerald Cowen notes that agorazo "is especially common in deeds of sale, such as in the purchase of houses; however, its most noted use is to refer to the purchase of slaves. This use is cited by Deissmann in a will dated around 133 B.C. He expresses the opinion that Paul used the very formula found in these records in the New Testament. The third word is lutroo. This means "to redeem by paying a price." It is commonly used in connection with redeeming articles that had been pawned, such as a cloak (Moulton and Milligan). It is also used in pagan religion to express the idea "freeing a soul from death." (Salvation Word Studies) It is notable that in the numerous NT texts that discuss redemption, it is never specifically stated to whom the redemption (ransom) price is paid (cp Christ's Triumphant cry from the Cross "It is Finished" = "Paid in Full" - Jn 19:30-commentary note). Unfortunately some of the Early Church father proposed the false teaching that Jesus paid the redemption price to Satan. To the contrary the Scriptures make it is clear that the price of Christ's precious blood was paid in order to satisfy the righteous, holy and just demands of God Himself (cp Ro 3:26-note). The related derivative word exagorazo [word study] intensifies the meaning of agorazo, the preposition "ek" emphasizing that the purchase is "out of" or "from" something, in the NT referring to the state of slavery (spiritually speaking). Redeemed--How I love to proclaim it! Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed by His infinite mercy, His child and forever I am. --Fanny Crosby (Play hymn) (204 hymns with word redeemed!) (389 hymns with word Redeemer!) (171 hymns with the word Redemption)